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07 Nov 99 - 10:09 AM (#132831) Subject: John Denver's version of 'My Old Man' From: Fivensevn I remember long ago.....John Denver singing "My old man"....but with different lyrics than what I have found. Anyone know the one's HE sang? Thanks D. |
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07 Nov 99 - 11:49 AM (#132857) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Q: John Denver's version of 'My Old From: Gene Go to: * Fabio Zucca's John Denver Site * |
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07 Nov 99 - 12:12 PM (#132864) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Q: John Denver's version of 'My Old From: DonMeixner Denver's lyrics are a little changed but I prefer the way Jerry Jeff Walker wrote them. All thats missing is All the nites that passed a child was born, All the years that passed their love would keep them warm, All their lives they shared a dream come true, All because she danced so well to his fiddle tune, The train next morning.... Those lyrics are the ones I've sung since 1967. They may be fuzzed by memory but they are closer than the ones in the Denver data base. Don |
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07 Nov 99 - 12:57 PM (#132875) Subject: My Old Man / The Old Man From: Joe Offer I see in the database that there are songs with this title by Ewan MacColl (click), by Rosanne Cash (clack), and by Jerry Jeff Walker (clunk). Click here for Steve Goodman's song with that title, and for "The Old Man" by Phil Coulter, the one that our Big Mick Lane sang so beautifully at the FSGW Getaway last month. The Irish Tenors did a pretty good job on it, too. -Joe Offer- |
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07 Nov 99 - 06:27 PM (#132966) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Q: John Denver's version of 'My Old From: Stewie Dave Mallett also has a nice one by that title on his live album 'Parallel Lives'. |
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30 Dec 07 - 03:42 AM (#2224741) Subject: Lyr Add: MY OLD MAN (Jerry Jeff Walker) From: Jason Xion Wang John Denver has sung it in the album "Rhymes And Reasons" & "The Skip Weshner Show". JOHN'S LYRICS: My old man had a rounder's soul He'd hear an old freight train Then he'd have to go Said he'd been blessed with a gipsy bone That's the reason they guessed He'd been cursed to roam Came into town back before the war Didn't even know what it was He was looking for He carried a tattered bag for his violin It was full of lots of songs Of places that he'd been He talked real easy had a smiling way To pass along to you When his fiddle played Making people drop their cares and woes To hum out loud those tunes That his fiddle bowed Till the people there began to join that sound And everyone in town was laughing Singing, dancing round Like the fiddler's tune was all they heard that night As if some dream said: "All the world is right" Whistling His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there She had that rollin' flowin' Golden kind of hair He played for her as if she danced alone He played his favorite songs Ones he called his own He played until she was the last to go He stopped and packed his case And said he'd take her home All the nights that passed a child was born All the years that passed That love would keep them warm All their lives they'd share a dream come true All because she danced While his fiddle tuned Whistling My old man had a rounder's soul He'd hear an old freight train Then he'd have to go All that I recall said when I was so young No one else could really Sing those songs he sung Whistling JERRY'S LYRICS: My old man had a rounder soul He'd hear an ol' freight train And he'd have to go Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone And that's the reason I guess That he'd been cursed to roam Came to town back before the war Didn't even know what it was He was lookin' for He carried a tattered bag for his violin Full of lots of songs Of the places he had been He talked real easy and he smiled and waved He could pass along to you When his fiddle played Makin' people drop their cares and woes And hum out loud the tunes That his fiddle bowed Til the people there began to join that sound And ev'ryone in town was laughin' Singin', dancin' 'round Like the Fiddler's tunes we all there heard that night Like some dream that says "All the world is right" Instrumental Break The Fiddler's eye caught a beauty there She had that rollin' flowin' Golden kind of hair He played for her as if she danced alone He played his favorite songs The ones he called his own She alone was dancin' in the room The only thing left movin' To that Fiddler's tune Instrumental break He played until she was the last to go The he stopped and packed his case And said he'd take her home In all the nights that passed a child was born In all the years that passed Love would keep them warm And all their lives they'd share that dream come true And all because she danced So well his fiddler tune Instrumental break The train next mornin' blew a lonesome sound As if she sang the blues Of what she took from town And all that I recall that was said when I was young There's no one else could really Sing those songs he sung |
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08 Sep 10 - 05:47 PM (#2982686) Subject: RE: Chord Req: My Old Man From: GUEST,GUEST; CJ I WOULD LIKE THE GUITAR/TAB/ CHORDS/LYRICS FOR THIS SONG. I HEARD IT ON JOHN DENVERS "RHYMES AND REASONS" CD TODAY AND IS GREAT.1969 CHERRY LANE MUSIC PUB;.CO. CREDITS IT TO JERRY JEFF WALKER.. I SO MISS JD. |